COUNSELLING
Seeking support
Life can be challenging, and sometimes we all need a safe space to pause, reflect, and make sense of our experiences. Counselling offers a confidential, supportive environment where you can explore what feels difficult, confusing, or painful, gain perspective, and begin to move towards meaningful change.
We understand that seeking support takes courage. Our aim is to help you feel heard, understood, and empowered.
With many years of experience as therapists, we bring depth, confidence, and warmth to our work, tailoring our approach to each individual. We also have additional training in a specialist therapy called EMDR, which is highly effective in processing past trauma and other experiences which are having a negative impact on you. It can also help with anxiety, depression, phobias, pain and much more.
Who can counselling help?
Everyone’s life experiences are individual, and so are the reasons people come to counselling. We’ve included some examples below, but this list is by no means exhaustive. You might be:
- Experiencing anxiety, worry, depression or low mood
- Feeling overwhelmed by stress, burnout or pressure
- Struggling with grief, loss or significant life transitions
- Feeling lost, disconnected or unsure of your identity
- Navigating relationship difficulties or family challenges
- Feeling haunted by historical traumatic experiences
- Battling low self-esteem or self-confidence
- Keen to explore patterns in behaviour or emotional responses
If any of the above resonate with you, or you’re struggling in a way that’s not covered here, counselling could be a supportive next step.
How we work
- Weekly sessions
- In-person sessions at our office in Reading
- Online sessions if preferred
- Over 18s
- A collaborative, reflective and supportive approach
- Work that balances understanding the past with living more fully in the present
- A safe, confidential space to explore what matters most to you
Meet your therapists
We are experienced therapists offering relational, trauma-informed counselling in a safe and supportive environment. While we each bring our own therapeutic approach, we share a commitment to thoughtful, ethical practice and to building genuine therapeutic relationships that support meaningful change.
Julia’s approach
Julia offers a warm, open and carefully held space where clients can explore patterns in their relationships, emotional life and sense of self. She believes that change happens through a genuine therapeutic relationship: one grounded in curiosity, safety and thoughtful dialogue. Since qualifying in 2015, she has supported clients in developing deeper understanding and lasting change.
Working from a psychodynamic perspective, Julia helps clients notice repeating patterns of behaviour that may sit outside of conscious awareness, and understand how their current ways of relating and responding have been shaped by earlier life experiences. She pays attention not only to what clients bring into the room, but also to what unfolds within the therapy relationship itself, recognising this as an important source of insight and change. Her approach is steady and reflective, combining depth with gentle challenge.
Julia works with clients whose lives have been affected by trauma, including developmental and relational trauma. She integrates EMDR where appropriate, supporting the processing of experiences that feel intrusive, overwhelming or difficult to move beyond. This work always sits within a broader relational understanding of each person’s history.
Louise’s approach
At the heart of Louise’s work is a warm and collaborative therapeutic relationship. She supports clients to explore patterns in relationships, emotions and behaviour in a safe, curious and genuinely engaged way.
Since qualifying in 2011, Louise has worked with clients across a range of settings, bringing extensive experience to her integrative-relational approach. She pays close attention to how the therapeutic relationship itself can support understanding and change, noticing how patterns shaped by earlier experiences may appear in the present moment between therapist and client. By building a strong working alliance and remaining open, responsive and authentic, she helps clients feel understood, while gently exploring different ways of relating in their everyday lives. Her approach is engaged, responsive, and grounded in relational depth.
Louise has significant experience working with trauma, including complex and developmental trauma. EMDR forms an important part of her practice. Alongside integrating it into ongoing therapy, she offers EMDR intensives for clients seeking focused, structured trauma processing. Her integrative approach allows her to combine reflective exploration with structured therapeutic methods flexibly and compassionately.
Fees
Initial Consultation
The initial consultation is a two-way process: an opportunity for you to share what brings you to therapy and for you to get a sense of whether you feel comfortable working with us. The consultation is charged at the standard rate.
Standard Fees
Initial consultation: £70 per session
Therapy: £70 per 50-minute session
Please note: EMDR sessions may be longer than 50 minutes. Full details, including intensive EMDR formats, are available on our EMDR Therapy page.